What Does IPSec Provide?

IPSec provides for everything you need to create a secure connection over a public medium. Privacy or confidentiality is achieved via encryption algorithms. Integrity is achieved via hash algorithms, and origin authentication is achieved via digital signatures. IPSec also provides antireplay services to be sure that packets can be used only once and can never be replayed later in a session.

IPSec provides the following security services: data integrity, origin authentication, antireplay protection, and confidentiality.

Data Integrity

When we send data from source to destination, whether it is plaintext or encrypted, we ...

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